Bank One Texas, National Ass'n v. United States

EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:

Bank One Texas, N.A. (“Bank One”), Lilia Beatrice Cox Harris, Linda Harris Beard, Margie Harris Newtown, John H. McMullen and Andy J. McMullen (“the McMullens”) appeal the dismissal of their Quiet Title Act (“QTA”), 28 U.S.C. § 2409a (1994), claim. We affirm.

I

In 1927, H.J. McMullen bought “an undivided one-sixteenth interest in and to all oil, gas and other minerals in and under, and that may be produced from” several pieces of land located in Zapata County, Texas, totaling slightly more than 1000 acres (“mineral interests”). He later ceded to McMullen Oil &…